The arts and humanities can help us to reimagine socio-ecological futures and this impact is increasingly becoming recognised. The role of popular music is perhaps crucial but remains an under-explored area when addressing the challenge of climate change (e.g. Brennan et al. 2019). Our previous AHRC-funded projects, Fields of Green and When Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday, began to critically examine how song-writing and music can help to reimagine and shape the future of cities. This project roots these song-writing methods in the experience of one place - the Carbon Landscape - with our partner The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside (LWT). The aim of this project is to explore the capacity of popular song to help our target audience of 14 - 18 year olds in Wigan and Leigh to imagine the future of the Carbon Landscape in the context of climate change. In doing so, the project will: - explore young people's perceptions of past, present and future climate change through song-writing; - provide the opportunity for young people to connect with different generations in their local communities and the Carbon Landscape partnership to talk about climate change; and, - to understand and prompt young people engage to engage with wider conversations around wetland restoration in Greater Manchester and the future of the Carbon Landscape. We will engage with a maximum of 10 young people, which is conducive to the participatory nature of the song-writing process. Three workshops will take place: two are in-person and one will be online. Workshop 1 will begin with a site visit to the Carbon Landscape to explain thousands of years of change through the unifying aspect of carbon. Following the site introduction, participants will work with the academics and song-writers through a combination of the Roundview (to frame activities) and song-writing to draw out the emotional connections to the Carbon Landscape within the context of climate change. The Roundview uses graphics and hands-on tools to engage and educate people about ecology and sustainability, and to motivate and inspire people to engage with sustainable futures (Tippett and How, 2017). Song-writing workshops have also been successfully used to bring people together and to connect to the on an emotional level regarding climate change that similar techniques have been unable to utilise (Urie et al., 2019). Through this process, we anticipate that up to two songs will be collectively produced. Workshop 2 will explore young people's ideas for making a video of the song for dissemination purposes. In this workshop, other methods of dissemination will also be discussed and we will take our young participants lead (e.g. using short insights for Tik Tok) which may help effective peer-to-peer dissemination to occur. Both of these workshops will take place on two consecutive days and, at the end, the song-writers will perform at a live music performance in the Lancashire Mining Museum, Astely Green (https://lancashireminingmuseum.org/). Following video production, a further online workshop will be held with the young people, the Carbon Landscape partners, and members of the local community (through connected residents groups) Participants will be shown the resultant videos and asked to reflect on difference that song-writing made to the way that adults thought about this landscape and its future in the context of climate change. Partners in the Carbon Landscape include Natural England, The Environment Agency, Manchester City of Trees, and Salford, Wigan and Warrington Borough Councils. This workshop will not only help the evaluation of the project but will encourage inter-generational dialogue on the subject of climate change and post-industrial landscapes. See 'Beneficiaries and Impact' to understand the potential impact.

My project explores the cultural history of environmental change amid the Industrial Revolution in Britain, from the 1790s to the 1830s. I study poets, politicians and philosophers of the Romantic period who were also first-hand participants in experimental schemes to change the physical landscape around them. The writers who feature in this project drained marshlands, managed estates, designed industrial villages, or - on a smaller but still significant scale - gardened, farmed or planned utopian communities. Their social and artistic ideals influenced their land reform enterprises. In turn, the successes and failures of those enterprises changed their ideas about society and art. Studying these writers reveals the interactions between nature, politics and imagination during a period that shaped the global environment of the present day. Romantic literature has always been special to environmentalists. It has often been seen as a profound source of ecological values, thanks to figures like Wordsworth ('Come forth into the light of things / Let Nature be your teacher'), Coleridge's albatross-shooting ancient mariner, and Mary Shelley's reckless Victor Frankenstein. Many scholars have traced the origins of green politics to Romantic idealisations of harmonious dwelling amid the natural world. Their research has been important, but it also has its limitations. The coupling of Romanticism and modern environmentalism can make it seem as if all that really matters is the sensitivity with which solitary individuals appreciate nature. In that perspective, important things are lost. This project is different because it stresses the fact that the nonhuman world is always changing. 'Nature' is less a static source of spiritual values than a dynamic product of historical circumstances. Hence my concern with experiments in new kinds of land use. The authors I study were shaped by personal experience of the ground they worked on: its obduracy, its ecological complexity and its potential for new life. I am especially interested in writers who were radical or oppositional in their politics. Through them, I will examine how social status and power relations mediate experiences of the nonhuman world. My project sheds new light on several canonical Romantic poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Percy Shelley. It sets them alongside other writers who are far less well remembered, like William Madocks, the radical MP who undertook a vast scheme to embank an estuary from the sea, and Charles Waterton, the naturalist who turned his ancestral estate into what has been called the world's first nature reserve. I will track those reformers through five pivotal decades for Britain's economy and environment. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are the 'classic' era of the British Industrial Revolution. Historians have increasingly recognised that the Industrial Revolution involved the reshaping and rethinking of ecosystems. In Britain and its overseas colonies, industrialisation required both radically transformed landscapes and new conceptions of nature itself. For that reason, the main strand of this project will be complemented by a collection of essays, written by economic historians and literary scholars, exploring wider issues of environmental change in the Romantic decades. That essay collection will break new ground in showing what economic and environmental history can add to the study of literature. This project's ultimate aim is to map a new path for environmental studies of British history and culture. Romantic writings about experiments in land and society let us address fundamental questions about the causes and cultures of ecological change. Britain's imperial and industrial transformation shaped the global environmental crisis of the present day. The Romantics' land experiments can help us understand the history of upheavals that now affect everyone, everywhere.

The Phoenix Takes Flight (PTF) research study will explore how community-based organisations delivering social prescribing initiatives can expand and grow within integrated care systems. PTF will work with an established social prescribing programme Phoenix Rising (supported by the Thriving Communities Fund), where existing third sector partners (The Gathering Fields, Green Close, Lancashire Wildlife Trust and Mandala Preston) are currently delivering an extensive programme of art, nature and movement activities in partnership with Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust's Recovery College. The study will draw upon the learning of the partners who collectively have over 55 years' experience of delivery in this field and the research findings produced by Lancaster University in September 2020 https://greenclose.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Phoenix_Project_Evaluation.pdf and also due in March 2022. PTF will draw upon a growing network of community partners delivering social prescribing in the area and explore the benefits and challenges of delivering community-based health support for a wide range of participants, examining how it can be embedded into integrated care systems, and how it can grow and flourish to enable access for those populations most in need of healthcare support. The study will use the existing network which the Phoenix and Phoenix Rising projects have grown to ensure a robust cross-section of health care providers, GP's, Social Prescribing link workers, patients and third sector organisations are involved from the study's inception through to its completion. PTF will bring these groups together to discuss the challenges and benefits of this work, to reflectively plan the development of the work and ultimately co-produce ideas and solutions that will enable the existing programme to become more scalable in terms of service offers and more likely to be sustainable to those in need of accessing such services - thereby ultimately to 'taking flight'. Co-production, patient voice and an open and inclusive approach to our research - informed by the knowledge of our partners - will ensure that we build an inclusive, solution-focussed outcome that will enable a collective approach to expanding social prescribing offers embedded within integrated care systems. It is our aim that the solutions provided through this research will help to tackle some of the many health inequalities existing in the North West of England.